J K Rowling Famous Quotes
Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
"Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world."
"His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof."
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
"It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."
You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
"Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here"
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
"To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure."
There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.
"The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution."
J K Rowling Quotations
"In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary and it is they alone who are masters."
Paul Gauguin
"Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again - and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.
Mark Twain
The truth is not always the same as the majority decision.
Pope John Paul II
"Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything. It's the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it."
Trey and Matt Stone Parker
Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot
Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.
Glenda Jackson
"In the world of human thought generally, and in physical science particularly, the most important and fruitful concepts are those to which it is impossible to attach a well-defined meaning."
H A Kramers
"All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.
Amos Bronson Alcott